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Herbie Crichlow, 32, English
"If you rlly picture it," Herbie Crichlow says, "I shouldn't be here." No kidding. A brash English import who says he's the "black sheep" of Sweden's low-key pop scene, Crichlow moved to Stockholm for one thing, or more accurately, one woman. The short story: boy meets girl on a Barbados beach, boy falls for girl, girl goes home, boy follows, freezes, acclimatizes, marries.
The boy also happened to have a good voice and caught the ear of Cheiron's Denniz PoP, who shifted Crichlow's focus to song-writing. The hits soon followed. With PoP and Max Martin, Crichlow penned the Backstreet Boys' We've Got It Goin' On, while he and Martin wrote Quit Playin' Games.
"If it weren't for D., there would be no me," Crichlow says, so PoP's death in '98 hit hard. Crichlow left Cheiron that year. Some say the move meant the end of his career as a premier writer. Going it alone is unheard of in Sweden, where the music scene centers on collectives like Cheiron. So his recent work for B-list acts like No Authority got little notice.
One industry exec notes that Crichlow never lost his talent, just the people he needed to back him up. So it's worth watching The Bridge, Crichlow's new setup with producers Per Stappe and Ari Lehtonen. Their first project is a cover of Def Leppard's Pour Some Sugar on Me for British group Five, to be released by summer.
The skeptics are still there; one producer says Crichlow is "done." But the "black sheep" of Swedish pop is sure he'll come up with the Golden Fleece. "I've made it this far for this long," he says. "Why not now?
J.C.
For
TIME MAGAZINE
http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,102134,00.html
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